Security Fix: October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006

Zango, the company that makes the 180Search Assistant and Zango family of pop-up ad-serving and Web tracking software, has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The suit charged that unfair and...

The Washington Post today ran a story I wrote on the first phase of "Operation Cardkeeper," an international investigation by the FBI into scammers who are using online fraud forums to traffic in stolen credit cards and identities. From the...

Update, 4:35 p.m. ET: Lynn Fox over at Apple called back with the following statement: "We were recently made aware of this security issue in our first generation AirPort card, which has not shipped since October 2003. This issue affects...

The Washington Post today ran a story I wrote about the 24-year-old Ph.D. student who earned a visit from the FBI after posting on his blog a tool that let anyone generate fake boarding passes. From the piece: "Christopher Soghoian...